هواجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From هوا (heva, “liking; whim, fancy, caprice”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

هواجی • (hevacı)

1. one who manifests a liking, desire, whim or fancy

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هواجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2173